He’s careful to say cores but multiprocessor also means multiple cores, just not on the same silicon. And Sun had 32 thread machines not long after his timelin

He’s careful to say cores but multiprocessor also means multiple cores, just not on the same silicon. And Sun had 32 thread machines not long after his timeline. IIRC they were so goddamned expensive as to be academic, but my customers only ran Sun hardware in their data centers (cellular carriers). Mid tier hardware mostly. Our target was 4 cores per server around 2008.